JEE Advanced: Important topics and scoring chapters

JEE Advanced 2020: While the exam has been deferred until further notice, students aspiring for admission to IITs can start preparing already; especially those who have cleared JEE Main January session.

As there is no clarity on JEE Main April exam dates yet, it is wise that students aiming to study at IITs meanwhile also give a glance to the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) syllabus. For those who aim IITs, it is necessary to clear JEE Main and feature in the top 2.5 lakh while the final admission is granted based on JEE Advanced merit list. Those who have cleared JEE Main January session have all the right reasons to go for JEE Advanced right now.

This year, IIT-Delhi is conducting JEE Advanced which too has been postponed due to the coronavirus lockdown. The JEE Advanced revised dates are likely to be announced shortly after JEE Main. Last year, Kartikey Gupta was the All India JEE Advanced topper. He scored 346 marks out of 372 marks in JEE Advanced and obtained AIR 18 in the JEE Main exam.

Last year, students had found the mathematics section to be lengthy with heavy calculations, most of the questions from physics in JEE Advanced 2019 question paper were from class 11. Even as chemistry was an easier section with mostly NCERT-based questions, more questions were asked from inorganic section.